Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, (0–)1–12+ cm underground, villous.

ascending to erect, 1–9(–15) cm underground, strigulose.

(2–)3–12 cm;

stipules distinct, subterranean ones often fully amplexicaul but distinct, 7–15 mm, foliose at distal nodes;

leaflets (5–)7–13(–15), blades elliptic, oblong or lanceolate-elliptic, 10–30(–35) mm, pinnately veined, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces sparsely villosulous or villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2.5–9 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, (1–)1.5–4 mm;

leaflets 7–17, blades linear, linear-oblong to narrowly oblong, oblanceolate, or cuneate-oblong, (3–)5–20(–25) mm, apex retuse, surfaces strigulose.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely (6–)12–45(–55)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1.5–)3–13(–17) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 3–9.8 cm, usually longer than subtending leaf.

erect, ascending or incurved, or divaricate, 3–13 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.7–1.8 mm.

13–19 mm;

calyx campanulate to subcylindric, 7.5–8.8 mm, villosulous, tube 6.3–8 mm, lobes broadly triangular, 0.6–0.8 mm;

corolla yellowish with whitish margins, banner sometimes purple bordered white, keel 13.2–16 mm.

5.3–8.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 2.1–3.3 mm, strigose, tube 1–2.7 mm, lobes deltate to triangular-subulate, 0.4–0.9 mm;

corolla pink-purple, banner purple-veined;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 3.7–6.1 mm.

green becoming brown, ± straight, ovoid, inflated, 15–21 × 5.5–8 mm, papery-membranous, black-pilose, hairs to 0.5 mm;

stipe 5–7 mm, pubescent.

declined or deflexed, brown or stramineous, obliquely subglobose, plumply ovoid, or ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, (4–)4.3–8(–9) × 2.3–3.6 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, strigulose to villosulous;

sessile.

6–10.

5–9.

= 16.